Example sentences of "call it a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Ms Hilary Armstrong , education spokesman for Labour and North West Durham MP , called it a desperate measure to save Mr Fallon 's parliamentary seat . |
| 2 | sort of , the , the last pair went , went on and on and on , it got to twelve o'clock and the the , the landlord said right that 's it he said I 'm closing down no matter what , he said I 'd , I 've , he was n't eleven o'clock on , he said that 's it I ca n't keep it open any longer , so they closed it down , we called the game off , called it a boring match , they came down the club , fucking played them there , thrashed them out of sight first four games , no first five games , five nil , straight away , wahey , fucking walloped them , walloped their that was the , that was the league champion 's as well , Post Office in Grantham |
| 3 | The USA had constantly insisted that the Krasnoyarsk radar station should be dismantled , calling it a major obstacle to the conclusion of a START treaty , and had rejected as inadequate a Soviet decision on Oct. 27 , 1988 , to turn the complex over to the Soviet Academy of Sciences for civilian use . |
| 4 | Cupertino , California 's Globetrotter Software Inc , creators of Flexlm , the network license manager , last week introduced GlobeSupport , a remote support software aimed at software developers , calling it a new product category . |
| 5 | The group is strong because it has access to power through its institutional involvement with the state , which is why Becker calls it a corporate bourgeoisie . |
| 6 | You can call it a delayed action , if you like , but it is never the former . |
| 7 | I would call it a holding offence ! ’ |
| 8 | Yes , why do n't we call it a BLACK HOLE . |
| 9 | You ca n't really call it a positional isomer as such |
| 10 | You may indeed call it a temperamental difference , but I venture we are talking about something rather more . |
| 11 | You could call it a bad year . |
| 12 | ‘ But no one could call it a lucky house , could they ? ’ |
| 13 | You ca n't call it a National Anthem , because it covers the the twelve or more states of the European Union , as it is now , and do you know what that is , the the Anthem for the European Union . |
| 14 | Perhaps next time you could surrender and call it a tactical strike without arms . ’ |
| 15 | In the very first episode I did , we fitted that onto a wobbling camera tracking in ( today you 'd call it a hand-held shot ) and , together with a sucker cup sticking out into shot , it gave you an impression of the thing lumbering towards Barbara down a passage . |
| 16 | Building societies and banks have finally abandoned their secrecy and pretence over their ‘ inspection ’ and do not call it a structural survey any more . |
| 17 | If we 're gon na call it a blameworthy accident . |
| 18 | The high-relief figure — one could hardly call it a three-dimensional effigy — is placed on a plain black ledger lying on the floor , and appears as a body rising vertically from the grave . |
| 19 | Manager Brian Horton called it a criminal performance . |
| 20 | She called it a good house , because the maid always kept things for her . |
| 21 | Evans called it a pictographic' script , and its origin is still uncertain . |
| 22 | Just after the Second World War a village was sentenced to death by planners who called it a rural slum . |
| 23 | In the old Tarzan movies they used drums , and they also used natives and the warriors carried a stick , they called it a forked stick and it looks like the assembly might need a new set of forked sticks |
| 24 | Du Camp in one of his books — I forget which , there were always so many — made a reference to the malign effect on man of too much solitude , he called it a false counsellor who nurses at her breasts the twin infants of Egotism and Vanity . |
| 25 | He called it a disgraceful situation for a man in a position of trust . |
| 26 | ‘ Perhaps it would be more accurate to call it a total contradiction . ’ |
| 27 | It is also possible , also without such misuse , not to call the second member an effect , but to call it a nomic correlate instead , as we have . |
| 28 | To call it a personal relationship or to believe that the individuals contributed more than its pleasantries is an illusion . |
| 29 | This is more like the case of money paid without consideration — to call it a voluntary payment is an abuse of language . |
| 30 | This is more like the case of money paid without consideration — to call it a voluntary payment is an abuse of language . |